Micro- and nanoplastics prevalent in the environment routinely enter the human body through the water we drink, foods we eat, and even the air we breathe. Those plastic particles infiltrate all ...

A University of Rhode Island study suggests that microplastics can migrate through the body and potentially disrupt memory and cognition. A new study from the University of Rhode Island suggests that ...

People who inherit two copies of a gene variant called APOE4 have a 60% chance of developing Alzheimer’s by age 85. Only about 2% to 3% of people in the U.S. have this genetic profile, and most of ...

Healthy eating habits may cut the odds of developing this disease by up to 35 percent for people at greatest genetic risk. Possessing the APOE4 gene variant is one of the biggest risk factors for the ...

mohd izzuan / Getty Images People who inherit two copies of a gene variant called APOE4 have a 60% chance of developing Alzheimer’s by age 85. Only about 2% to 3% of people in the U.S. have this ...

A new study published by researchers at the University of Rhode Island suggests that the accumulation of microplastics in the brain could affect how it functions, findingthat high amounts of ...

Aldosterone dysregulation plays an important pathogenic role in hard-to-control hypertension. In several studies, baxdrostat, an aldosterone synthase inhibitor, reduced the seated systolic blood ...